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Recent Examples of moralizer
Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant.
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Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizer
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The series includes the participation of Rusty Yates, Andrea’s former husband, as well as former followers of preacher Michael Woroniecki.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
6 Jan. 2026
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They were covered in the press as the hipster ministers, the preachers in sneakers, the hypepriests.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn’t get people to stop buying and reading dangerous books.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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Garfield, an idealistic moralist, happens to catch his colleagues at a time that even the movers and shakers have tired of the corruption.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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And a piece of history went missing when neon burned out and was abandoned, said Chris Geddes, a lecturer in the University of Colorado Denver’s historic preservation graduate program and a historic preservation specialist in Aurora.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
11 Jan. 2026
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Asha Rangappa, a Yale University senior lecturer and former FBI special agent, said one of CRS's most important contributions was in building trust between local communities, police and federal law enforcement.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
10 Jan. 2026
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The beat-bread-and-fry blueprint is so well-established that even a dab of mustard is a dicey proposition among pork puritans.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
10 Mar. 2025
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Centuries after being burned at the stake, a witch named Jennifer (Veronica Lake) magically reappears and tries to torment the descendant of the puritan who led the charge against her — only to fall in love with him.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
18 Oct. 2024
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The city police will increase walking and bike patrols, license plate readers and drone surveillance, Pureval said.—
Scott Wartman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Jan. 2026
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Personally, as an adult reader of mostly literary fiction—but one raised on fantasy—these books come close to bringing me that childhood thrill of dissolving into another universe.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.—
Thomas A. DuBois,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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